Effectively denying the Justice Department funds to meddle with mmj dealings, the provision reads as follows:

None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to any of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, or with respect to the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico, to prevent any of them from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.

As noted by Huffington Post, this provision signals a general disinterest among congressmen when it comes to overseeing marijuana laws on a federal level. The denial of federal funds to-be-used in enforcing federal marijuana laws in states with enacted medical marijuana programs is a major blow to Sessions, who has compared the herb to heroin and held a Senate hearing to remind everyone that “good people don’t smoke marijuana.”

As a result of this budget deal, neither Trump nor Sessions will be able to do very much to mess with state marijuana laws, at least until the fiscal year ends in September.

So don’t take off your activist hats just yet, dear cannabis defenders. You’ve still got plenty of work to do.